2007 TdF route - help!
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Tribro posted 2 years ago.
I think it's a little early, not sure they've released the route yet. They usually have something on OLN (versus) when they do and I haven't seen anything to date.
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PrinceofClydes posted 2 years ago.
But, but I gotta start booking travel arrangements!
I mean there's gonna be a rush for the best hotel rooms, etc.
kidding..
you're probably right. I just got eager is all. But they must know already, what's holding it up?
I mean they don't leave it until winter to go out and check the roads for the following July. There's probably snow in the passes by now.
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mdd posted 2 years ago.
They do know the route because I recall OLN showing a preview of the 2007 course on their last TDF 2006 broadcast.
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corkfeeninpr posted 2 years ago.
It really hasnt been announced yet. The only part that is official is the prologue and first stage in england
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dahoeller posted 2 years ago.
It should be coming out in the next few days. Other sites to check:
cyclingnews.com
dailypeloton.com
velonews.com
I went in 2003 and followed the Tour for about 10 days - camped out half the time and stayed in hotels the other half. Let me know if you would like some recommendations, etc.
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catwood posted 2 years ago.
It is fun to watch! I watched the infamous stage 17 because I was studying in the area. It was sooo cool. There is so much hulabaloo surrounding the event and those guys were moving very fast even near the top of the mountain where I was watching from..
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corkfeeninpr posted 2 years ago.
Full stage-by-stage run-down:
Saturday 7 July: prologue in London (8km)
Sunday 8 July: Stage 1 - London to Canterbury (203 km)
Monday 9 July: Stage 2 - Dunkirk to Ghent (167 km)
Tuesday 10 July: Stage 3 - Waregem to Compiegne (236 km)
Wednesday 11 July: Stage 4 - Villers-Cotterets to Joigny (190 km)
Thursday 12 July: Stage 5 - Chablis to Autun (184 km)
Friday 13 July: Stage 6 - Semur-en-Auxerrois to Bourg-en-Bresse (200 km)
Saturday 14 July: Stage 7- Bourg-en-Bresse to Le Grand Bornand (197 km)
Sunday 15 July: Stage 8 - Le Grand Bornand to Tignes (165 km)
Monday 16 July: rest day in Tignes
Tuesday 17 July: Stage 9 - Val d'Isere to Briancon (161 km)
Wednesday 18 July: Stage 10 - Tallard to Marseille (229 km)
Thursday 19 July: Stage 11 - Marseille to Montpellier (180 km)
Friday 20 July: Stage 12 - Montpellier to Castres (179 km)
Saturday 21 July: Stage 13 - individual time trial Albi (54 km)
Sunday 22 July: Stage 14 - Mazamet to Plateau de Beille (197 km)
Monday 23 July: Stage 15 - Foix to Loudenvielle-Le Louron (196 km)
Tuesday, July 24: Rest day
Wednesday, July 25: Stage 16 - Gourette to Col d'Aubisque (218km)
Thursday, July 26: Stage 17 - Pau to Castelsarrasin (188km)
Friday, July 27: Stage 18 - Cahors to Angouleme (210km)
Saturday, July 28: Stage 19 - Cognac to Angouleme (55km time-trial)
Sunday, July 29: Stage 20 - Marcoussis to Paris, Champs Elysees (130km)
Total distance 3547km (2205 miles)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/6083932.stm
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PrinceofClydes posted 2 years ago.
Way cool, thanks Corky.
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dahoeller posted 2 years ago.
Taking a quick glance, stage 9 and 14 look like great ones to watch. On stage 9 they will climb the Galibier and then they have a mountain top finish on the Plateau-de-Beille on stage 14.
If anyone is going next year, I highly recommend going to at least one start and one finish - gives a different perspective than just watching the climbs. Marseille is a cool port city (watched a stage finish there in 2003).
I've just spent an hour on the web trying to find a friggin' map of the TdF route next July.
Not even on the "Official" website
http://www.letour.fr/2007/TDF/presentation/us/etape1.html
can I find a simple link labelled perhaps, "La Route"
nor on Velonews, The British Cycling Page
http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/site/BC/roa/News2006/20060209_TDF_Route.asp
- which is all excited about hosting the prologue and stage one of course, but once the tour leaves the shores of bonny Britain, could they care? Apparently not.
Has anybody else got a link for me, please?
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steamed, mystified, stunned by the obtuseness of these so-called promoters who haven't figured out that maybe a map of the course ought to be the first thing they put on their websites.
Grrr..
"Pain doesn't last, chicks dig scars, glory is forever!"
- Shane Falco.